Prohibiting media from the home or benefiting from it
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the safest and best for the head of the household: to prevent media from entering his home, such as television and the internet, because of the abundance of their harm, or to allow them in and strive to take the good from them, especially regarding his children?
Answer:
By Allah, if he is safe from them and they do not enter his home, that is better if he is able. If he is not able, he should scrutinize, taking the good from them and leaving the evil. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the safest and best for the head of the household: to prevent media from entering his home, such as television and the internet, because of the abundance of their harm, or to allow them in and strive to take the good from them, especially regarding his children?
Answer:
By Allah, if he is safe from them and they do not enter his home, that is better if he is able. If he is not able, he should scrutinize, taking the good from them and leaving the evil. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل هذا السماع الشيطاني المضاد للسماع الرحماني له في الشرع بضعة عشر اسمًا — islamhouse.com (53:33)
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